Is it just me or is it typical for folks to get a bit more nostalgic as they age.
Because truth to be told I’ve been reminiscing about my college time recently. Perhaps its the fact that within a few years of graduation life would be throwing me a ton of knee buckling curveballs. Or perhaps because they symbolize a cheap and free escape. Either way it makes those memories more softer, and a little more rose tinted.
To be sure, my time in Ann Arbor wasn’t that eventful. Most of it was trying to stay afloat during classes, wondering why these winters never ended, and being alarmed at how the squirrels got as big as dogs. At that time I also didn’t have the tools for proper time management and going from a strictly scheduled high school exp to complete independence was a huge change. So I had to learn some self managing and other tools along the way.
Still, it was a beautiful time with some of the most kind, good, and memorable people I’ve ever met in my life. Though I’m in touch with precious few, and you forget the exact interactions, the echos of warmth shown always resonate in your memories. Perhaps even more as life teaches you what truly matters.
It’s also a testament that large or small, they’re doing far more everlasting and consequential things in the world. So I’m glad to have shared a season or two, thankful at the impact they had on me, continue to have, and I’m sure in many others lives. Even if it shows up a bit later in life.
So for those of us that graduated some time back and witnessed many a good friend, we’re truly lucky even if we didn’t make as much of our time there as we wanted…. Especially since the cost of tuition back then doesn’t seem that bad nowadays… though it still took me such a long time to pay that back…
But hey at least national championships feel absolutely amazing.
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